Community Calendar

Come to the High Cotton on the Bayou Festival at Scott Settlement in Scott Arkansas, 10am to 3pm on Saturday October 4th, 2025 and step back into history! Enjoy a wonderful day full of turn-of-the-century family-style fun!

Tour authentic plantation buildings that compose the Scott Settlement. Watch demonstrations of heritage skills such as grinding and cooking sorghum, blacksmithing, spinning yarn, needlework, wood fired oven cooking, and butter making.

Children will enjoy playing heritage games such as hopscotch, jumping rope, sack races, and walking on stilts.

Listen to live music while you stroll and explore vender booths, historical buildings, and heritage activities. Ride on an antique school bus and hay wagon within the settlement compound.

Food, brunch, and lunch available for purchase at the wood fired oven/cast iron cookstove and a food truck.

Visit The Sweet Shop located in the original Scott Train Depot. Purchase homemade goodies and coffee from start to finish.

Admission is $5 per person. Children age 6 and under admitted free.

High Cotton on the Bayou Festival is on the first Saturday each October regardless current weather conditions.

Pagan event to discuss topics and create community in the Central Arkansas Area. Come have fun and some coffee, tea, water!

Join us for the season-closing free concert featuring Arkansauce in their highly anticipated 4th annual appearance at Argenta Vibe Music Series.

Arkansauce, the Ozark-born progressive string quartet, masterfully blends newgrass, folk, country, blues, and funk for a breathtaking, foot-stomping experience. Known for their energetic live shows and genre-defying setlists, they've become a beloved Argenta staple—don't miss their explosive finale performance!

Join us for a tail waggin’ good time… live music, food, drinks, free microchips, door prizes, and veterinary education

Irish traditional music session. Live music every Sunday afternoon at Hibernia Irish Tavern. Open to traditional Irish style musicians, dancers, singers and storytellers of all ages. Listeners welcome. Family friendly setting. Free and open to the public.

Join us October 7-9, 2025 at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center for a celebration of the arts. The conference will provide educational opportunities for the creative community statewide, and the opportunity to learn about innovative arts initiatives and arts programs from skilled professionals. Expand your network and maximize new possibilities across the art world and beyond. Get ready to collaborate, engage, and inspire.

Featured speakers include:
· Gabe Holstrom, executive director for Downtown Little Rock Partnership, Little Rock
· Dr. Jennifer Moore, founding dean, School of Occupational Therapy, Arkansas Colleges of Health Education, Fort Smith
· Kassie Misiewicz, director at Theater for Youth, actor, Kennedy Center National Teaching Artist, and Focus 5, Inc. arts integration consultant, Fayetteville

The ARTx3 Campus will host an opening reception for the “2025 Pine Bluff Art League Annual Exhibition” from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, at The ARTSpace on Main, 623 S. Main St.

The ARTx3 Campus hosts a juried exhibition of works by members of the Pine Bluff Art League each year. Monica "Mokasso" McGee is this year's juror. Pieces from the exhibition will be available for purchase.

The exhibition is on view in the Kline Family Foundation Gallery by appointment through Nov. 22. The exhibition is sponsored by Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co.

For more information, contact Shakeelah Rahmaan, interim curator and programs director, at srahmaan@artx3.org or call 870-536-3375.

2024 BEST IN SHOW: Rhonda Holderfield, "End of The Trail," acrylic on canvas

Webpage: artx3.org/exhibitions/2025-pine-bluff-art-league-exhibition

The ARTx3 Campus will host a free public reception for the exhibition “Strange Awakening” by Brian Wolf from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, July 24, in the Loft Gallery at The ARTSpace on Main, 623 S. Main St.

Wolf is an artist and graphic designer who lives in North Little Rock. Since 2021, Wolf has been exploring symbolic imagery and abstraction using a variety of media. His primary media has recently shifted from acrylic painting to drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. “Strange Awakening,” his latest body of work, is the culmination of self-discovery, acceptance and artistic transformation that began in 2023.

“Strange Awakening” will be on view from July 24 through Nov. 15. The exhibition is sponsored by the Kline Family Foundation. For more information, contact Shakeelah Rahmaan, programs director and interim curator, at srahmaan@artx3.org or call 870-536-3375.

The ARTx3 Campus will host an opening reception and awards ceremony for the “2025 Irene Rosenzweig Biennial Juried Exhibition” from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 S. Main St. The event is free and open to the public.

The prestigious show — funded by an endowment from the notable Pine Bluff resident — is an opportunity for established and up-and-coming artists to gain recognition and earn prizes, and for The Arts & Science Center to grow its Permanent Collection. The exhibition is open to artists in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. The artists selected for the 2025 show will be announced in mid-August. The prizes awarded are best in show, first place, second place and three merit awards. Purchase awards totalling $2,000 are also available.

The exhibition will be on view in the International Paper Gallery from Sept. 18 to Jan. 24, 2026. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

“The Irene Rosenzweig Biennial Juried Exhibition” is supported in part by The Arts & Science Center Endowment Fund and the Irene Rosenzweig Endowment Fund.
For more information, contact Shakeelah Rahmaan, interim curator and programs director, at srahmaan@artx3.org or call 870-536-3375. Webpage: artx3.org/rosenzweig

Join us October 7-9, 2025 at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center for a celebration of the arts. The conference will provide educational opportunities for the creative community statewide, and the opportunity to learn about innovative arts initiatives and arts programs from skilled professionals. Expand your network and maximize new possibilities across the art world and beyond. Get ready to collaborate, engage, and inspire.

Featured speakers include:
· Gabe Holstrom, executive director for Downtown Little Rock Partnership, Little Rock
· Dr. Jennifer Moore, founding dean, School of Occupational Therapy, Arkansas Colleges of Health Education, Fort Smith
· Kassie Misiewicz, director at Theater for Youth, actor, Kennedy Center National Teaching Artist, and Focus 5, Inc. arts integration consultant, Fayetteville